Word: clerambault
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...early music did justice to the time period in which it was written, but it also allowed artistic freedom for dancers and set designers,” says Spellberg. He notes that Clerambault, although in many ways a traditional French baroque composer, worked outside the patronage system of the aristocracy...
Instead of holding a job as “court composer,” Clerambault wrote for (and made a living from) private performances. This practice, which did not become commonplace for classical composers until well into the 19th century, suggests that both the composer and the “arrangers” share similar independent sentiments...
...These were not really of a performance genre in origin,” says Spellberg of the cantatas. Clerambault, who is regarded as the master of the “French cantata,” may have written these with a living-room performance among friends in mind...
...such a good response from the French community last year,” says Billings of last year’s HEMS concert of works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, a well-known French baroque master who is, more or less, the musical “father” of Clerambault...
...program consists of Suite de Premier Ton by Louis-Nicolas. Clerambault; Sonata I by Paul Hindemith; Prelude and Fugue in A minor by S. J. Bach; Sonata III, Op. 65 by Felix Mendelssohn, and Concertante for Organ, Celesta, and Percussion by Daniel Pinkham. The latter number will be conducted by the composer...